How Many Eggs Do Bed Bugs Lie

Bed bugs are reddish brown, small, oval-shaped, flat and wingless insect that feed on human blood at night. Bed bugs are considered nocturnal insects since they are in their most active in the middle of the night.

Bed bugs are speading fast in households, hotels, motels, busses, cabs, and train stations. They are spreading so fast that you now wonder, how many eggs do bed bugs lie?

Bed bugs, just like any insect, reproduce pretty fast. And eggs that they lie are many too. How many eggs do bed bugs lie, you now ask? Before we answer how many eggs do bed bugs lie, let us try to know how bed bugs behave.

Bed bugs feed on human blood. There are some species that feed on both bats and humans. So if your attic has bats, there is a chance that your house is infested with bugs. If you treat your attic of bats habitation, you can thereafter easily treat the bed bugs infestation.

Bed bugs come from eggs. They become nymphs after they are hatched from their eggs.

How many eggs do bed bugs lie? A female bed bug can lay from three hundred (300) eggs a year to one thousand eggs (1,000) in its lifetime! A female bed bug can lie one to three eggs a day after mating. These bed bug eggs are hatched in about ten days.

A bed bugs life is long. They may even last more than a year and a half without feeding. Imagine that! Bed bug eggs can survive on any surfaces, but prefers wood, cloth or paper more than plastics and metals, while the nymps can survive for six months without feeding.

Where are the possible places that a female bed bug will lie her eggs? Bed bugs will lie its eggs in small and thin crevices to protect the eggs from harm. Femal bed bugs hide their eggs under the mattresses, on the headboard crevices, under the creases on the nightstand right beside the bed, inside the bedrooms‘ wallpaper and other wooden furniture within the area.

How many eggs do bed bugs lie will determine the degree of infestation. A mattress full of bed bug eggs means hundreds of female bed bugs are around laying eggs everywhere, and bed bug eggs are being hatched everyday.

If we exterminate the bed bugs, we should also exterminate bed bug eggs. If these bed bug eggs will be left untouched, they will hatch and become either a male bed bug or a female bed bug that can reproduce thousands of eggs. If thousands of female bed bugs are present in your home, you won’t know anymore how many eggs do bed bugs lie.

** How to search for bed bug eggs.

Bed bug eggs are easy to spot. They resembles termite eggs. But unlike termite eggs, bed bug eggs reside beside a reddish brown stain and has an offensive, sweet-like odor, a bit musty in fact. The reddish brown stain is fecal or bed bug excrement. Only bed bugs have that kind of excrement pattern. The bed bug odor on the other hand comes from the scent glands of bed bugs. They release the scent for mating and it also serves as a territorial boundary.

Bed bug eggs should not be pulped or crushed. Bed bug eggs should be killed through use of insecticides. If you will just crush these bed bug eggs, some eggs may not be squashed and they will have the chance to reproduce another generation of bed bugs in your home.

Find the best insect killer spray. Use those that are specifically for bed bugs extermination. Bed bug eggs and nymps will die along with their adult company with the anti bed bug chemical spray. Although many say that these bed bug chemical killers are not that effective to get rid of bed bugs, they are still the best alternative to manual bed bugs extermination (crushing and pulping adult bed bugs and eggs to bits) and the best replacement for DDT. DDT has been used during the 1940’s to 1950’s to kill all sorts of insects in the US. Although they were successful in getting rid of pests with DDT, DDT is now banned in the States and other countries because of its harmful effects to humans.